Bolshoi Theatre • Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke

Tenor

Wolfgang
Ablinger-Sperrhacke

Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke

Born in Austria, he studies at Musikhochschule in Vienna with Prof. Gerhard Kahry (voice) and Kmsg. Kurt Equiluz (Lied, oratorio).

He makes his début at Opéra National de Paris in 1997, then sings at Glyndebourne Festival Opera (more than 130 performances), appeared at Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich Opera Festival, Bregenz Festival, at Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Komische Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Opernhaus Zürich, Teatro alla Scala, Opéra national de Paris, Théâtre du Capitole (Toulouse), Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Teatro Real (Madrid), Canadian Opera Company, and in concert in Bergen, Salle Pleyel in Paris, Lille, Melbourne, Göteborg, Hannover, Saint-Denis-Festival, Royal Festival Hall, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Helsinki Festival, Salzburg Festival and Covent Garden.

In 2022 debuted at the Bolshoi theatre in Salome production.

Awards

Bayerischer Kammersänger

2021

Among his important engagements:

Valzacchi (Rosenkavalier) — Monnaie de Bruxelles, Baden-Baden-Festival, Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden
Dr. Cajus (Falstaff) — Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Teatro Real Madrid
Mime (Rheingold) — Semperoper Dresden, Teatro alla Scala, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier/Montreal, De Nederlandse Opera, Bunka Kaikan/Tokyo, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich Opera Festival
Mime (Siegfried) — Capitole de Toulouse, Teatro Real, La Fenice, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich Opera Festival, Staatsoper Stuttgart, De Nederlandse Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Wiener Staatsoper, Odense
Pedrillo (Entführung aus dem Serail) — Festival Mozart La Coruña, Teatro Real, San Carlo di Napoli)
Trimalchio (Maderna’s Satyricon) — Opéra national de Lorraine
Josef (Wiener Blut) — Opéra national de Lorraine
Battistelli’s Divorzio all’italiana, world-premiere — Opéra national de Lorraine
Knight Bluebeard (Offenbach’s Blue-beard) — Bregenz Festival, Oper Leipzig, Komische Oper Berlin
Loge (Rheingold) — Opéra national du Rhin, Lucerne Festival, Opera North
Aegisth (Elektra) — Opéra national du Rhin, Verbier Festival, Wiener Staatsoper)
Hauptmann (Wozzeck) — La Scala, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zürich, Southbank Centre
Piet (Grand Macabre) — English National Opera, Berliner Philharmonie
Witch (Hansel und Gretel) — Opéra national de Lyon, Bayerische Staatsoper, Glyndebourne Festival
Herod (Salome) — Wiener Volksoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zürich, Opéra national du Rhin, Munich Opera Festival, Bayerische Staatsoper
Pirzel (Die Soldaten) — Salzburg Festival, La Scala
Prinz/Kammerdiener/Marquis (Lulu) — Staatsoper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Théâtre de la Monnaie
Klaus Narr (scenic world-premiere of Gurre-Lieder) — Nederlandse Opera and in concert in Bergen, Salle Pleyel/Paris, Lille, Melbourne, Göteborg, Hannover, Saint-Denis-Festival, Royal Festival Hall, Elbphilharmonie/Hamburg, Semperoper/Dresden, Helsinki Festival
Pollux (Liebe der Danae) — Salzburg Festival
Ivan (The Nose) — Covent Garden
Wenzel (Bartered Bride) — Bayerische Staatsoper and Munich Opera Festival
Franz I. (Krenek’s Karl V.) — Bayerische Staatsoper and Munich Opera Festival
at Glyndebourne Festival Opera:
Vašek (Bartered Bride), Reverend Adams (Peter Grimes), Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte), Arnalta (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Tanzmeister (Ariadne auf Naxos), Podestà (La finta giardiniera)

He works with stage directors such as Krzysztof Warlikowski, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Jürgen Flimm, Simon McBurney, Laurent Pelly, Robert Wilson, Pierre Audi, Andreas Kriegenburg, Andrea Breth, Alvis Hermanis, David Bösch, David McVickar, Günter Krämer, David Pountney, Olivier Py, Michel Fau, Robert Carsen, Barrie Kosky or Fura dels Baus and with conductors such as Kirill Petrenko, Daniel Barenboim, Ingo Metzmacher, Franz Welser-Möst, Kent Nagano, Marc Albrecht, Armin & Philippe Jordan, Emmanuelle Haïm, James Conlon, Christian Thielemann, Erik Nielsen, Robin Ticciati, Hartmut Haenchen, Antonio Pappano, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vladimir Jurowsky, Susanna Mälkki or Simone Young.

Discography

DVDs:

Knusperhexe/Hänsel und Gretel, 2009, Valzacchi/Rosenkavalier, 2012, Arnalta/L’incoronazione di Poppea 2009 (Decca), Dr. Cajus/Falstaff, 2002, Mime/Das Rheingold, 2013 (arthaus), Pirzel/Die Soldaten, 2013, Pollux/Die Liebe der Danae, 2017 (EuroArts), Tanzmeister/Ariadne auf Naxos, 2014, Monostatos/Die Zauberflöte, 2015, Klaus Narr/Gurrelieder, 2016 (Opus Arte), Prinz/Kammerdiener in Lulu, 2015 (Deutsche Grammophon), Prinz/Kammerdiener/Marquis in Lulu, 2017 (Bel Air) Hauptmann/Wozzeck, 2016 (accentus).

CDs:

Knusperhexe/Hänsel und Gretel, 2010, Reverend Horace Adams/Peter Grimes, 2010 (Glyndebourne Label), Klaus Narr/Gurrelieder, 2016 (Chandos).

General partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — insurance company «Ingosstrakh»

Privileged sponsor of the Bolshoi Theatre — Tinkoff Bank

Privileged partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — GUM